But to refer to tears that one has "sat and cried" just doesn't work grammatically. Only two years later, Brooks & Dunn got back on track, launching that year with 'Aint Nothing bout You', the biggest hit of the duos career and the biggest country single of 2001. A grammatical way to express the intended meaning would be "No telling how many tears I've cried while sitting here. But that would still be non-sensical in light of the nature of tears (which are hard to set anywhere) and what is meant by crying them, and the fact that verb order would tend to suggest the singer set them somewhere before crying them, hardly feasable even if setting tears somewhere were easy.
It could be grammatically correct to use the related transitive verb "set", and say "tears I've set here and cried". One merely "sits" one does not sit tears or sit anything else (and "sat" is here the past participle of "sit"). '18 videos of Alan Jacksons greatest hits If you dont get CMT (like here in Germany) and/or you prefer good qualitiy, you should not. 1 NR 2001 1hr 35min: George Strait - For the Last Time Live from the Astrodome. From thermal flow sensors and mass flow metering systems, we continually launch new products and enhance existing systems to unlock new levels of thermal mass flow measurement. 7 NR 2004: Brooks Dunn - The Greatest Hits Video Collection. As the global leader in precision fluid measurement and control, mass flow meter manufacturer Brooks Instrument continues to innovate thermal mass flow technology. In addition to being non-sensical, that is agrammatical, since "sat", being an intransitive verb, can't take any object. Alan Jackson - Greatest Hits Volume II Disc 2. But in inverting order within that basic phrase and juxtaposing the first verb ("sat," the intransitive one) with the subject and auxiliary verb (as embidied in the contraction "I've)", an implication inevitably arises that "tears" is the object of both verbs ("sat" and "cried"), as the co-ordinating conjuction "and" puts the two on equal footing, and the one closest to the object, "sat", forms a precedent for how they must be related to the object ("tears"). There would be no grammatical problem with saying "I've sat here and cried tears." That would simply employ a compound verb phrase with one verb intransitive and the other transitive (no rule against that, I suppose). I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like it before. This is a very bizarre grammatical misstep.
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